Joseph Amberg

Joseph Amberg (1892-30 September 1935) was one of the Amberg Brothers, a Jewish-American gang from New York City.

Biography
Joseph Amberg was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1892 to a Jewish-American family, the brother of Hyman Amberg and Louis Amberg. The Shapiro Brothers became a feared gang, competing with Abe Reles, Jacob Shapiro, Louis Buchalter, and the Shapiro Brothers over control of the late Jacob Orgen's garment industry after his murder in 1927. Joseph and Louis were responsible for the murders of the Shapiro Brothers, but Joseph would meet a violent end himself in 1935. Amberg and Morris L. Kessler were trapped in a Brownsville auto garage by Murder, Inc. hitmen and gunned down after being forced to stand against a wall.